The complete online text of A Vindication of the Press by Daniel Defoe.

The English novelist, journalist, poet, and government agent Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets, articles, and poems. Among the most productive authors of the Augustan Age, he was the first of the great 18th-century English nov...

Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel which was only slig...

Daniel Defoe's modern literary reputation is based almost entirely on the series of prose narratives that he wrote from 1719 to 1724. In April of 1719 Robinson Crusoe was published; with the success of that work, he went on to write a sequel that was onl...

In trying to overturn the ARB Professional Conduct Committee's (PCC's) findings against her, Senka Vranicki's case (Judgment 16.03.07) has highlighted how the appeal system works, writes Sue Lindsey (a j plus 27. 03. 07). Vranicki was charged by the ARB with both aspects of...

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